
Apache Parquet: Good for Analytics, Not So Good for Search
Why Apache Parquet's columnar format excels at analytics but falls short for search applications requiring low-latency retrieval and relevance ranking.
By Wes RichardetMarch 5, 2025
Analytics and data insights
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Why Apache Parquet's columnar format excels at analytics but falls short for search applications requiring low-latency retrieval and relevance ranking.

How effective search capabilities form the foundation of exploratory data analysis and why AI shouldn't be the sole analytical mechanism.
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How industry standardization toward Parquet, Iceberg, and other formats is enabling data stack consolidation.
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